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We've all been watching the enormous oil disaster that unfolding off of Louisiana. This thing has a huge variety of repercussions and implications, so here is a list of the things it will affect. It is by no means inclusive. US Energy Policy. A Big Deal was made earlier in Obama's first...

Are we talking about your average Vikings fan or the media? Most fans that I know are less concerned about Fav-rah and more concerned that the Vikings get to win again. Many fans I know don't really like that we are using arch-nemesis and all-around mediaboy Favre, but they like winning more...

As a Minnesotan and reformed Favre (I prefer to call him Fav-Rah!) fan I can understand the general hating. I would prefer he didn't spurn the Packers, and I'd prefer he didn't cause so much wasted ink in the national press. But I can live with that, as I can live with the general animosity of...

I am reading Juran's Quality Control Handbook, 4th ed. I eat this stuff up, dunno why.

I was a bit dazed by the Vikings pick strategy. Clearly Favre is coming back for another year of punishment, but then what? And gods forbid the man is injured and we have to rely on Tarvaris Jackson. oh well, I don't really care, but it goes to show that neither the pundits nor armchair...

Those are called sin taxes, and are used to discourage behavior without infringing rights. OakTable said it right.

How many chickens will your medical procedure cost?

k, you lost me. What exactly is your point?

The underlying issue was that the law was overly broad. If it is rewritten to better target the intent of the law then everyone can support that; it was just a bad piece of legislation in the first place and infringed on other types of speech.

Rams picked QB Sam Bradford in the 1st round. The Vikings'll get Clausen. But in general the plan as I understand it was to give up a 'bad' first round pick due to position to pick up an additional overall pick, and 'better' placement in the second round.

Scuttlebutt in the Twin Cities is that the Vikings'll pick up Clausen to replace Favre after next season. Meh, anythings better than Tarvaris Jackson!

Irony at it's finest: The far right-wing tea partying anti-healthcare reform socialist-hating Republican in her primary bid (for John McCain's Senate seat no less) is proposing using a bartering system to negotiate health care prices in a method just like Europeans use in rural...

So, this is a parody of a politician in Arizona who is suggesting that people barter with their doctors to bring down the cost of healthcare, trading chickens and the like for heart surgery or general medical care. This is the level of intellectual discourse in America today. Proud to be one...

I need Lasik eye surgery to correct my nearsightedness. Any interested Opthamologist please contact me. I am trading one chicken per eye. Thanks. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/04/chickencare_goes_viral.php?ref=fpblg

I work at a medical device firm in the Twin Cities, doing regulatory affairs stuff. I enjoy it much more than I probably should, I like the paperwork and protocol; does that make me a bad person? :question:

How's the view from nerd love-in, off-topic land you two?

Many car bodies are plastic now. Setting aside aesthetic and tradition concerns changing the plastic mould to include dimples doesn't sound technically challenging to me. Altering the underlying body to accommodate the dimples may prove challenging, but hardly insurmountable. And before we...

The hippie speaks truth. To fuck all with out consumerist culture and leanings. Christmas is about giving items and ideas that are useful and heartfelt. A Christmas tree bursting at the seems with crap that people don't really want to receive, done only to appease the neurotic social...

No, this was your actual claim: 'So-called' is a device for belittling a belief system, just like if I were to say 'so-called religion'. Used it in that context and the breadth of your statement is more ominous. You are stating that science is the new religion, even though science can...

GO FOR THE EYES BOO!